Dr. Boomershine teaches courses in Spanish language, Hispanic linguistics, and seminars on topics such as immigration and linguistic variation. In addition, she coordinates the department’s internship program. She has published a book chapter and articles in the fields of socio-phonetics and language variation. Her current research projects include a phonetic analysis of the Spanish and English vowel systems of heritage and bilingual speakers of Spanish, a perception study of English and Spanish sounds by bilingual, monolingual, and heritage speakers of Spanish and English, and a sociolinguistic analysis of the Spanish spoken in North Carolina. She enjoys involving graduate and undergraduate students in her research projects. She is active in the community, developing service-learning opportunities for students of Spanish at all levels. She serves on the advisory board for the Centro Hispano UNCW. She also advises UNCW’s chapter of Amnesty International and serves as the Vice-President of the local chapter of the United Nations Association. She is on the board of the local chapter of the American Association of University Women.

Recent Publications:

Lewis, Greg and Amanda Boomershine. In Press. The Realization of Word-Final, Preconsonantal /s/ in the Spanish of Mexico City. Journal of Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics.

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